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The cloud is eating business relying on licensing. This is relevant for both open and closed licenses. By the way I have wrote a post on that when the MongoDB d
by zby 7y ago
The cloud is eating business relying on licensing. This is relevant for both open and closed licenses. By the way I have wrote a post on that when the MongoDB debate was raging: https://medium.com/hackernoon/aws-and-mongo-and-open-source-efcdcfb00514 https://medium.com/hackernoon/aws-and-mongo-and-open-source-.... The way for Open Source to survive is to make it attractive for cloud providers.
- marktangotango 7y agoHow does one make their project attractive to cloud providers? For the sake of discussion; an infrastructure project like a job scheduler or some such?
- zby 7y agoI was more thinking about making the licensing attractive to cloud providers. The idea is that cloud providers are the dominant players - so for Open Source to survive it needs to be adopted by them. But yeah - I don't know how to do that. Licensing is not a core of their proposal, open sourcing their software does not impact their revenue directly - but might indirectly by letting other cloud providers compete with them using their own code.